Researcher turns skin cells into pain sensing neurons
11/26/2014
After more than six years of intensive effort, and repeated failures that made the quest at times seem futile, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) and...
Few cognitive or social setbacks experienced by adult survivors of childhood eye cancer
11/26/2014
Adult survivors of retinoblastoma, a type of eye cancer that usually develops in early childhood, have few cognitive or social problems decades following their diagnosis and treatment.
Half a million new cancer cases each year linked to BMI
11/26/2014
A new global analysis finds proportions of BMI-linked cancers vary across region and gender. North America was found to be the most affected region, with 23% of the global burden.
Newly designed nanoparticles infiltrate, kill cancer cells from within
11/26/2014
UC nanoparticle designs target and treat early stage cancer cells by killing those cells with heat, delivered from inside the cell itself.
New model of follow up for breast cancer patients
11/26/2014
Public health researchers from the University of Adelaide have evaluated international breast cancer guidelines, finding that there is potential to improve surveillance of breast cancer survivors...
Possible cause discovered for failure of targeted liver cancer therapies
11/25/2014
The failure of experimental liver cancer therapies directed specifically against the EGFR protein is presumably the result of insufficiently specific patient selection.
High-dose interleukin-2 can be effective in selected metastatic renal cell cancer patients pre-treated with VEGF-targeted agents, reveals research presented at the ESMO Symposium on Immuno-Oncology...
Marker polyps do not cause colorectal cancer
11/25/2014
Although serrated polyps usually are associated with colorectal cancer, it turns out that such polyps are themselves not dangerous, according to a Norwegian study released this week in BMJ Gut, a...
Survival in animal model of ovarian cancer improved by antiangiogenic treatment
11/25/2014
Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most lethal cancer of the female reproductive organs, with more than 200,000 new cases and more than 125,000 deaths each year worldwide.
Limiting abnormal cell growth in tumors may be achieved by clipping proteins that package genes
11/25/2014
Changes to the structure of the protein histone H3.3 may play a key role in silencing genes that regulate cancer cell growth, according to a study led by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine...